xii, 268 pages ; 22 cm

Readers of the present volume are offered lively and often humorous accounts of the impact of Jesus the Jew on Christian and Jewish readers; of the value of Josephus as a historical source regarding John the Baptist, James the brother of the Lord, and Jesus; the historical implications of ancient Jewish biblical exegesis; of the inside story of the monumental recasting by Vermes and his friends of Emil Schürer's History of the Jewish people; and of the sacrifice of Isaac and the story of the first-century Galilean rabbi, Hanina ben Dosa. The final two essays, written in 2007 and 2010, are particularly noteworthy, the first propounding a fresh and revolutionary approach to methodology in the study of the historical Jesus and the second restating and reinforcing Vermes's stance in the half-a-century long Son of Man debate

Collection of 12 out of 15 essays published elsewhere previously between 1970 and 2010

Includes bibliographical references and index

Jesus the Jew : Christian and Jewish reactions -- Jesus the Jew and his religion -- Jesus of Nazareth in a nutshell -- Flavius Josephus, the fifth evangelist? -- A dream -- Bible and midrash : early Old Testament exegesis -- Scripture and tradition in Judaism : written and oral Torah -- Methodology in the study of Jewish literature in the Graeco-Roman period -- How the new Schürer came into being -- Hanina ben Dosa : a Galilean contemporary of Jesus -- The binding of Isaac : Genesis 22 in rabbinic literature, the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament -- The battle over the scrolls : a personal account -- The significance of the scrolls for understanding Christianity -- Methodology in the study of the historical Jesus -- The Son of Man debate revisited (1960-2010)

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